Tag: Rory McIlroy

When Irish golfer Rory McIlroy accelerated his rehab stint for a stress fracture to his ribs to play a round of golf with the newly elected 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump, he took a pounding from fans and the press.

Unkind tweets to golf commentator Brandel Chamblee upset him so much that he deletes 10 tweets a day and calculates that he has banned over 20,000 people from his Twitter account since he started criticizing PGA players from his throne at the Golf Channel.

New York Times Reporter Karen Crouse queried 56 PGA players at the Genesis Open last week in Los Angeles and found a whopping 50 of those players (89.3%) would play golf with President Trump if invited.

Monday Breitbart reported that Irish Golfer Rory McIlroy came back early from a rehab stint for a stress fracture in his ribs to play a round of golf in Florida with newly elected U.S. president Donald J. Trump.

Golfer extraordinaire, Rory McIlroy, admitted in a recent interview that he wasn’t forthright when he blamed fear of contracting the Zika virus as the reason that he withdrew from the 2016 Rio Olympics in August.

Rory McIlroy has had the misfortune of having to deal with hecklers on every single hole at the Ryder Cup. From his introduction yesterday on the first tee where a few spectators yelled out “Rory is short” to a psychotic fan running up to him today between the seventh and eighth green and yelling, “Suck a d***, Rory!”

Team Europe was practicing for the 2016 Ryder Cup Thursday when Rory McIlroy was struggling with a 12-foot putt. A man in the gallery yelled out, “Even I could make that putt,” which is when Henrik Stenson singled the man

LONDON (Reuters) – Four-times Major winner Rory McIlroy will not compete in this summer’s Rio Olympic Games, citing health fears over the Zika virus, he said on Wednesday. “After speaking with those closest to me, I’ve come to realise that

Play gets underway today in one of the most anticipated PGA tour events of 2016. The top-three players in the world arrive in Dublin coming off thrilling victories in their last appearances. Jason Day won the Player’s Championship; Rory McIlroy the Irish Open, and Jordan Spieth won last week’s tour event.

What’s it take to win the Masters? The answer: ice water in the veins. No sporting event puts as much pressure on an athlete than the Masters. If you can’t handle it, you’ll never wear the green jacket.

Rory McIlroy made his first hole-in-one at the age of 9, won the Irish Amateur Championship at 16, and became the youngest and quickest ever to secure his European Tour card in just two events at the age of 18.

The R&A announced that the 148th Open Championship in 2019 will return to Royal Portrush, making it only the second time in British Open history, and the first time in nearly seventy years, the tournament will be held outside England or Scotland.

Unlike Jordan Spieth, who won the 115th U.S. Open on Sunday, English golfer Ian Poulter suffered through a rough day at Chambers Bay shooting seven over par for a finishing round of 77 and eleven over for the tournament.